- Updated on: July 23, 2022
- by Ernie
DanganRonpa is a visual novel type of dialogue-heavy quest game, with good quality animation. This game takes almost 45 hours to get a 100% completion. The gameplay and 36 episodes of anime complete each other.
The show turns into a pretty exciting murder-mystery story as we figure out who murdered who. But with so many different games, manga, anime, movies, reboots, and many more. Thus, fans get confused about where to start.
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The real experience and a good complete review of DanganRonpa lie in the games, visual novels, and anime. Reading the graphic novel is optional as it’s illustrated throughout the anime but I recommend that you at least play DanganRonpa 1 and DanganRonpa 2 (or watch the full gameplay on YouTube).
If you just jump right into the anime, at a certain point, you’ll realize that you want to play the games to properly understand what is going on. For this watch order article, the watch order is not only going to include the anime but the games, movies, live-actions, specials, OVAs, and visual novels as well.
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HOW TO WATCH DANGANRONPA IN ORDER
Danganronpa Release Order (ANIME)
1. Danganronpa: The Animation (2013)
Anime Storyline:
The series follows 16 secondary school students locked inside “Trust’s Peak Academy,” their secondary school. The students are compromised by a human bear, known as Monokuma, who gives them only one way of leaving the Academy, to kill another student, and not get caught in the act.
2. Danganronpa 3: Future Arc (2016)
Anime Storyline:
The story is based on Makoto Naegi and the fourteen other Future Foundation members in the final murder game.
3. Danganronpa 3: Despair Arc (2016)
Anime Storyline:
This is a pre-historic plot of the whole anime series. It explains the history of the Remnants of Despair and their contamination.
Danganronpa OVAs
1. Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito &
the world vanquisher
Anime Storyline:
Here, Nagito Komaeda is the protagonist and he was presented as an ordinary boy with bad luck but causes good luck for others. His mind created a weird & peaceful world. It all starts to fall apart after “The Destroyer of the World” appears.
Danganronpa Specials
1. Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak
High School – Hope Arc (2016)
Anime Storyline:
The final arc is particularly made for a good complete review & conclusion of the series.
Danganronpa Games
1. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (2010)
Storyline:
15 high school students are trapped in the school and pressured to take part in a killing game. The sole way out is to kill any person and get away with it. If they fail to catch the killer, only the killer can graduate and the others are annihilated.
2. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (2013)
Storyline:
Danganronpa 2 makes gamers use Hajime Hinata, an amnesiac boy who has simply emerged as one of Hope’s Peak Academy’s ‘Ultimate’. Students are taken to Jabberwock Island by way of their alleged teacher, a rabbit-like mascot named Usami.
3. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (2017)
Storyline:
The bizarre manslaughter game of Monokuma repeats with 16 new students. The abduction of Kaede Akamatsu and awakening while being confined in Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles takes place. Then Monokuma appears and enlightens the students that the only way to get away from the institute is to efficiently kill every other student.
Danganronpa Spin-Off Games
1. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (2014)
Storyline:
Plot-wise, the game has very unstable emotional control. Even when sections falter, the discovery of what occurs next in the story will make you eagerly enjoy it.
2. Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp (2021)
Storyline:
Danganronpa spin-off sees the Ultimate Students from Hope’s Peak Academy attending a talent development camp. The main story advances every time players obtain the Hope Shards for ten characters. Hype Cards are gained from the MonoMono Machines where players can obtain new characters.
Danganronpa Manga Release Order
1. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (2010)
Storyline:
It has a total of 6 chapters. Danganronpa: The Demo, Danganronpa: The Manga, Danganronpa: The Animation, Danganronpa: The Animation Dengeki Comic Anthology, Danganronpa Comic Anthology & Danganronpa: 4koma KINGS. Fully based on the game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
2. Danganronpa 1.2 Reload (2016)
Storyline:
It has only 2 chapters. Small Danganronpa 1.2 Light & Danganronpa 1.2 Comic Anthology. This manga is a series of short stories themed around comedy situations with the characters of Danganronpa 1.2 Reload.
3. Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School (2016)
Storyline:
With 3 chapters in total – Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer, Danganronpa 3:Comic Anthology & Danganronpa 3: Dengeki Comic Anthology The story is the combination of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School-Future Arc & Despair Arc with original characters.
4. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (2017
Storyline:
It was supposed to have 3 chapters but only 1 chapter was released – New Danganronpa V3: Comic Anthology Vol 1. This is a compilation, a series of short stories themed around funny moments with the characters of Danganronpa V3.
5. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (2020)
Storyline:
It has 8 chapters volumes: Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Super Danganronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubō Gakuen Comic Anthology, Super Danganronpa 2: Comic Anthology, Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair, Super Danganronpa 2: Nanami Chiaki no Sayonara Zetsubō Daibōken, Super Danganronpa 2: Nankoku Zetsubō Carnival! , Super Danganronpa 2 Dangan Island: Kokoro Tokonatsu, Kokoronpa, Super Danganronpa 2: 4koma KINGS & Super Danganronpa 2: Zetsubōteki Ingaritsu no Naka no Sōda Kazuichi.
It’s the manga adaption of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. The story is an alternate version of the occasions informed in the manga Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair.
6. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (2021)
Storyline:
It has 3 volumes: Danganronpa Another Episode Comic Anthology, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, Zettai Zetsubō Shōjo: Danganronpa Another Episode – Genocider Mode.
This is a non-canon comedy manga too with the characters of Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls.
Danganronpa Live-Action
1. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (2014)
Storyline:
The 15 students including the highlighted character Makto Naegi have to play a manslaughter game to graduate or get out of the institute they got themselves admitted to.
2. Super Danganronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubō Gakuen (2015)
Storyline:
The story follows the previous story very closely, but some adjustments have been made to reduce time and adapt the story. For example, whilst most executions are comparable to the game, Teruteru Hanamura’s and Chiaki Nanami’s are impaled with spears
3. Danganronpa: Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei (2016)
Storyline:
This one’s a stage play of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
4. Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibōgamine Gakuen (2018)
Storyline:
A stage play adaptation of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School.
Danganronpa Novels
1. Danganronpa Zero (2011)
Storyline:
The story revolves around a girl named Ryoko Otonashi of Hope’s Peak Academy, and the Ultimate Neurologist Yasuke Matsuda, with whom she is in love with.
2. Danganronpa Kirigiri (2013)
Storyline:
It’s about a young detective, 16-year-old Yui Samidare is contaminated when a case she was called for ends with her waking up alone and most of the detectives with her dead.
3. Danganronpa: Togami (2015)
Storyline:
It showcases the life of Ultimate Affluent Progeny Byakuya Togami before the events of the first game. In the story, his power is stolen from him while the Ultimate Assassins target him.
Short Stories
1. Makoto Naegi Secret File (2013)
Storyline:
It’s a 25-page brochure featuring a short story concerning the circumstances that led to Makoto Naegi’s enrollment in Hope’s Peak Academy.
2. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF (2014)
Storyline:
This one’s a storyline with Makoto Naegi, with the Escape Button from the MonoMono Machine at the early stage of the Killing School Life and his memory regain. Unlocked after Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
3. Ultra Despair Hagakure (2014)
Storyline:
It’s kind of unnoticed as it’s only visible after completion of Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. Here the spotlight is on Yasuhiro Hagakure and Kanon Nakajima.
Other
Danganronpa 1.2 Beautiful Days (2014)
Storyline:
It focuses on casts from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair and short stories that focus on their daily lives with illustrations.
Chronological Order:
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Game)
- Danganronpa: The Animation
- Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (Game)
- Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (Game)
- Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak – Future Arc
- Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak – Despair Arc
- Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak – Hope Arc
- Super Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of the World
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Game)
Comment Down Below
Since I’m finished with my Danganronpa watch order, I’d suggest once more to play the video games if possible. Watching just the anime is okay too but not if it’s for a good complete review.
Hopefully, it will be a good thriller and makes you excited in every minute of it. I hope my watch order helped in some way.
